Question

Have the following string i need to split.

$string = 'This is string sample - $2565'; $split_point = ' - '; 

One: I need to be able to split the string into two parts using a regex or any other match and specify where is going to split.

Second: Also want to do a preg_match for $ and then only grab number on the right of $.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

$split_string = explode($split_point, $string); 

and

preg_match('/\$(\d*)/', $split_string[1], $matches); $amount = $matches[1]; 

If you want, this could all be done in one regex with:

$pattern = '/^(.*)'.preg_quote($split_point).'\$(\d*)$/'  preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches); $description = $matches[1]; $amount = $matches[2];